“We literally transform Filbert Street — you walk down, you feel like you’re at a farm!” he says. “There’s bales of hay, there’s cornstalks, we have a whole pumpkin patch display, and upwards of 13 or 15 merchants from the market are coming outside. And I’ll be on the tractor all day, going around the block, giving free hayrides.”

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Taqueria Feliz comes to Main Street in Manayunk at the middle of this month. Lucio Palazzo says this new taco restaurant is scheduled to open October 18th.

“It is really like all your like mainstay tacos,” he tells What’s Cooking. “There’s gonna be carnita, a tinga, there’s gonna be an al pastor, an Ensanada-style fish taco. We’re gonna do al suadero with brisket, and there will be a few more as well.”

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Hear the full “Taqueria Feliz” interview (runs 6:46)…

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And Nick Farina, of Verdad Restaurant, is also delving into taco cuisine with his new Union Taco, 712 Girard Avenue, at the Northern Liberties-Fishtown border.

(Nich Farina of Union Taco. Photo provided)

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“We serve tacos, tortas — which are a traditional Mexican street sandwich — and we have our flatbreads,” he says.